Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 14
June 3, 2022
Gim Wong: Kick-ass Dragon Man
On June 3, 2005, 82-year-old Gim Foon Wong set off on his Ride for Redress. Starting at Mile Zero in Victoria, he planned to arrive in Ottawa July 1 on his Honda Goldwing motorbike, accompanied by his son Jeffrey. He planned to have a few words with Prime Minister Paul Martin about the brutal Chinese head tax that cost his mother and father each $500 in the early 1900s.
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May 28, 2022
The Industrial School for Girls
The Industrial School for Girls operated out of 868 Cassiar Street from 1914 until 1959 and was known as the “house of horror.” Now a residential condo, Cassiar is one of the properties featured on this year’s virtual Heritage House Tour, Thursday June 2. For tickets see: Vancouver Heritage Foundation
This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
In 1954, 17-year-old Gay Turner was tossed into the Provincial Industrial School for Girls for being drunk.
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May 20, 2022
How the Melbourne Hotel became No5 Orange
The Melbourne Hotel became No5 Orange in 1971, after 67 years as a hotel and beer parlour
The Melbourne Hotel opened in August 1904 at Westminster Avenue and Powell Street. According to the daily classified ads that ran in the Vancouver Daily World and Province, it had steam heating, electric lights and a white cook.
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May 14, 2022
The Dupont Street Train Station and the Marco Polo Restaurant
Long before the Vancouver Film School occupied the building at East Pender and Columbia Streets, there was a railway station that was later repurposed into the legendary Marco Polo restaurant.
Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
If you’re walking around Chinatown, you’ll likely notice the four-storey brick building at the corner of East Pender and Columbia Streets, now home to the Vancouver Film School.
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May 6, 2022
Vice in Vancouver’s West End
If you lived in Vancouver’s West End after 1981 you may not know that street barricades and parklets are a leftover from the West End’s prostitution era
West End:
Aaron Chapman’s latest book Vancouver Vice, is a colourful history of the West End in the 1970s and ‘80s. In those days up to 300 sex workers—male and female—strolled the streets—40 to 50 of whom might be working on any given day or night.
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Vancouver Vice
Catch Aaron’s talk at the Vancouver Police Museum and Archives next Saturday May 14 on his book Vancouver Vice. For details and ticket information see Vancouver Police Museum:
One of the many things I enjoyed about Aaron Chapman’s Vancouver Vice was discovering the West End’s colourful history in the 1970s and ‘80s.
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April 30, 2022
Rolie Moore, the Flying Seven and Burnaby’s Hart House Restaurant
I had the pleasure of having lunch with the delightful George Garrett at Hart House last week, a restaurant I’ve wanted to visit ever since I first heard that one of its inhabitants was the amazing Rolie Moore.
Rosalie (Rolie) Moore was born in 1912, the same year that Hart House was built as a summer home for land developer Frederick Hart and his wife Alice (it was called Avalon then).
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April 23, 2022
Jack Webster and BC Penitentiary
Maximum Security:
BC Penitentiary was a maximum-security federal prison plagued with riots throughout its 100-year life. There was the 1975 riot and hostage taking resulting in the death of Mary Steinhauser, a 32-year-old social worker. She was one of 15 hostages shot when police stormed the prison. Long before that, there was the 1934 riot when 78 prisoners refused to work unless they were paid.
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Jack Webster and the 1963 Prison Riot at BC Pen
BC Penitentiary was a maximum-security federal prison that opened in 1878 and was plagued with riots throughout its 100-year life. There was the 1975 riot and hostage taking that resulted in the death of Mary Steinhauser, a 32-year-old social worker and one of 15 hostages shot when police stormed the prison. And long before, there was the 1934 riot when 78 prisoners refused to go to work unless they were paid.
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April 16, 2022
Scenes from James Clavell’s Shogun filmed in Princess Park
Part of the Shogun mini-series based on James book is being filmed in North Vancouver’s Princess Park.
Story from Sensational Vancouver
Princess Park:
I was walking in Princess Park this morning and noticed that a film crew is preparing to shoot some scenes for a mini-series based on James Clavell’s 1975 book Shogun.
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